Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.